Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

- Marx, Karl

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

10.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

11.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

13.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

14.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

15.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

16.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

17.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

18.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

19.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

20.

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

21.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

23.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

24.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

25.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

26.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

27.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

29.

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

30.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

31.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

32.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

34.

A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

37.

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

40.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

42.

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

43.

Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

44.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

50.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver